Bicycle-handle



(No Model.)

P. 0. PETERSON. BICYCLE HANDLE.

No. 582,084. Patented May 4, 1897.

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PATENT BICYCLE-HANDLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 582,084, dated May 4,1897. Application filed Tune 22, 1896. Serial No. 596,439. (No model.)

act description.

The object of my invention is to so con struct a bicycle-handle that inthe event that it should ever become necessary to remove the handle fromthe handle-bar such removal may be accomplished in an exceedinglysimple, convenient, and expeditious manner and whereby the handle may beplaced upon the handlebar as readily as removed, and when.

in position on the handlebar the handle will be automatically locked tothe bar in such manner as to render the two parts virtually integral.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of theseveral parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed outin the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the handle-bar of a bicycle,illustrating the handle secured upon one end and the handle removed fromthe opposite end. Fig. 2 is an enlarged longitudinal section through theend portion of the handle-bar and the handle locked on the bar. Fig. 3isa transverse section taken substantially on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2, andFig. 4 is a like section taken practically on the line 4 l of Fig. 2. I

In carrying out the invention the handlebar A may be made of anysuitable or ap proved shape or construction, and at each end of thehandle-bar, which is open, diametrically opposing angular or bayonetslots 10 are produced, the diametrical member of each slot having apocket 11 formed at its in ner terminal, extending in direction of theouter end of the bar, it being understood that the diametrical membersof opposing slots extend in opposite directions, while the longitudinalmembers of the slots are in registry.

The handle 13 consists of a metallic sleeve 12 of such diameter as toneatly slip over the end of a handle-bar, and the sleeve is providedwith an outer covering 12, of cork or other material, which is adaptedto be grasped by the hand of the rider. The inner end of the handle isprovided, preferably, with a ferrule, and at the outer end of the handlea cap 12 is firmly secured, forminga ferrule for the outer end of thesaid handle, and the end portion of the cap 12 is dished, having itsouter face concaved and its inner face convexed. extends beyond theouter end of the covering 12 and, preferably, to an engagement with theinner face of the cap 12 between its marginal flange and its dishedportion, as shown in Fig. 2.

A spring 13 is made to extend from one side of the handle-sleeve 12 tothe other, engaging at its center with the convexed inner face of thehandle-cap 12 This spring is preferably straight, and its ends arereduced and extend outward through longitudinal slots 14, made in thehandle-sleeve, as shown in Figs. 2 and 4. A rod 15 extends from one sideof the handle-sleeve to the other at a point near The sleeve 12 of thehandle the vertical center, crossing the spring 13, and

the rod 15 is adapted to enter the slots 10 in the handle-bar for thepurpose of locking. the handle thereto.

In the operation of applying the handle to the handle-bar the rod 15 ofthe handle is introduced into the longitudinal portions of the slot 10and is pushed inward until the diametrical section is reached, and atthis time it will have been necessary to press the handle in to such anextent that the handle-bar will have engaged with the free ends of thespring 13 and flexed the same outward, and when the rod 15 is in thediametrical portion of the slots 10 the handle is turned until the rod15 is opposite the pockets 11 of the aforesaid slots 10, whereupon thespring 13 will straighten itself to draw the rod into the said pockets,as shown in Fig. 2, holding the handle firmly against turning.

It is evident that the handle may be as readily removed from thehandle-bar as applied to the same.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent 1. The combination of a handle-bar having apartly-returned slot in its end, a hollow handle fitting on the end ofthe handle-bar and having an inwardly-extending bearing-surface at itsouter end, a straight spring carried Within the handle and at the outerend thereof, the spring bearing at an intermediate point on thebearing-surface aforesaid, and a rod carried by and projecting into thehandle proper and capable of entering the slot in the handle-bar, thespring having its ends bearing against the handle-bar to hold the rod inthe slot, and being flexed around said bearing-surface as the rod isplaced and displaced in the slot, substantially as described.

2. The combination of a handle-bar With a tubular end and apartly-returned slot, a hollow handle fitting on the handle-bar and hav-PETER CHRISTIAN PETER-SON.

Witnesses:

HENRY N. SOENNIKSON, BRODER FRELLSON.

